Analysis of The Sky Opens
Like an exiting wind,
voices leave from within
As the feelings impart,
verbal memories embark
A last spoken refrain,
to escape unrestrained
As the sky opens wide
—Heaven's breath to provide
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
| Scheme | XX XX XX AA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111001 101101 101001 1010001 011001 10101 101101 101101 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 225 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 23, 2020
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on February 23, 2020
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